Golang Weekly

A slightly unusual issue, in three acts

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#614 — August 14, 2026

🏖️ We're taking a break next week, and will be back on August 28. Due to this, and the imminent Go 1.27 release, we're shaking the format up a bit this week…!
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Your editor, Peter Cooper

Go Weekly

Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering — Two Googlers, including Go lead Cameron Balahan, make the case that Go's features, like standardized formatting, a solid standard library, and the compatibility promise, make it a particularly good language for agents.

Cameron Balahan and Richard Seroter (Google)

🗣️ This piece provoked some discussion, most notably on Hacker News where the tone was quite adversarial, while r/golang did a better job than the post itself of explaining what's specifically Go about the argument.

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IN BRIEF:

Go 1.27 Release Candidate 3 is out, with the final just around the corner. More on that later in this issue.
🔐 Go 1.26.6 and Go 1.25.13 are out too with ten security fixes (explained within), including two that let a malicious GOPROXY or GOSUMDB slip module content past the checksum database.
Fiber 3.5, the latest version of the popular Express-inspired web framework, has been released with speedups, middleware security hardening, and fixes.

📊 Profile-Guided Optimization in Go — Turning PGO on for encoding/json parsing yielded up to 4.7% more throughput in Daniel's experiment. He also trained profiles on three different JSON documents and measured each build against all three, so you can see how well a profile transfers to previously unseen workloads.

Daniel Lemire

📄 Understanding Go AI Inference: Yzma – yzma provides a way to integrate llama.cpp into Go apps, but how it does it without CGo is the interesting bit! Jesús Espino

📄 Sets in Go: Past, Present and Future – Slides from this week's GopherCon UK talk on the set types proposed for Go 1.28. Luciano Ramalho

📄 Rewriting the Appwrite CLI in Go – A TypeScript to Go migration story covering why Go vs Rust, and how their now Go-powered CLI is still distributed on npm, as per-platform binary packages. Chirag Aggarwal (Appwrite)

👀 Go 1.27 is almost here!

Final Go releases often arrive a week or so after the third release candidate (as mentioned above), so Go 1.27 may be released next week while we're away… 😱

If it lands in our absence (it'll be announced on the official Go blog), here are a few resources to help you navigate the release:

The DRAFT Go 1.27 Release Notes – The release notes, while still in draft form, are essentially a laundry list of everything that will land. And, bonus, this page will magically become the final release notes upon release.
🎉 The online Go 1.27 Release Party – JetBrains is holding an event along with members of the Go team on August 25 at 4:00 pm UTC.
Generic Methods Land in Go – The feature Go Weekly readers have been most excited about this year by a long shot, if clicks are anything to go by.
Finding Leaked Goroutines in Go 1.27 – A look at what the new goroutine leak detector in runtime/pprof can and can't do.
Jesús Espino's Go 1.27 Interactive Tour covers a wide range of features.

Open Source Hit Frontier-Level Code Review at a Tenth of the Cost — PR-AF places #2 of 42 on Martian's Code-Review-Bench. Verified findings only, self-hosted, any open model.

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🏆 Highlights of the Year So Far

Before we take a week away, we're reflecting on some of the highlights of 2026 so far. We know it's not always possible to read every issue, so here are a few items you may have missed that we enjoyed! :-)

The Most Popular Go Dependency Is… – Testify! Thibaut Rousseau shares the fascinating process he went through to figure that out, and shares the rest of the top 10.
The Go 1.26 Interactive Tour – As we learnt last week, this was Anton Zhiyanov's final Go tour and it still provides a good look at modern Go features you might not yet be using.
Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide – A thorough single-page reference covering identifiers, filenames, packages, and the concept of "avoiding chatter."
~~templUI~~ shadcn-templ: Customizable UI Components for Go and Templ – Templ is Go's answer to JSX… kinda. And shadcn-templ (the new name for templUI) offers a suite of components and themes, leaning on Tailwind CSS, to use with it.
A 'Pure Go' Linux Environment, Inspired by Fabrice Bellard – I forgot this existed, but it still impresses! With a single go run you can get a Linux environment up and running. Now I just need to find a use for it…

And that's a wrap! We'll see you again on Friday, August 28! 👋

P.S. A huge thanks to everyone who's sent in submissions lately. There have been so many that I've fallen behind a lot, but every email gets read and I'll be playing catch up on my return :-)

An interactive tour of Go 1.27

Fri, 7 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#613 — August 7, 2026

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An Interactive Tour of Go 1.27 — Anton Zhiyanov made interactive tours for Go 1.22 through 1.26 but decided to stop. Jesús Espino has picked up the baton and tackles Go 1.27's huge array of features here, from generic methods and the goroutineleak profile to the new uuid package and experimental portable SIMD.

Jesús Espino

💡 No, Go 1.27 has not been released yet, but the second release candidate is solid, and the final is expected in the next week or two.

Harness Engineering: How to Wrangle Your Agents — The models keep changing. The harness is the part you build. Scott Moss (Netflix) shows how: durable execution, sandboxed tool calls, memory systems, and multi-agent handoffs.

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A Proposal to Fix Go's Proposal Backlog — The backlog is growing 23% a year with the median item over two years old. Austin Clements proposes a formal triage group, review tracks, and weighted community emoji voting to decide what gets reviewed next (though not what gets accepted).

The Go Team

Going Backward (or Why slices.Backward Looks So Complicated) — slices.Backward's signature is intimidating at first glance, so Anton reinvents it step-by-step, from a naive slice copy to callback iterators, iter.Seq2, and the ~[]E constraint. Then, fingers crossed… it clicks?

Anton Zhiyanov

Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler — Since tsc is now written in Go, hacking on it is unusually friendly territory for a Gopher. Andrew adds a working defer statement to the compiler, but concludes it probably shouldn't exist.

Andrew Healey

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📄 Looking at the Memory Map of a Go 1.27 Program on Linux – Go 1.25+ names its memory mappings, making /proc/<pid>/maps readable. Chris Siebenmann

🛠 Code & Tools

Wails v3 Beta: A New Foundation for Go Desktop Apps — The Go desktop framework's long-awaited rewrite lands in beta with explicit app and window APIs, first-class multi-window support, Go services with TypeScript bindings generated via static analysis, and experimental iOS and Android support. Note that migrating from v2 will require real work.

Lea Anthony

Wireblast: A 100Gbps Packet Generator in Go — A Go app that uses AF_XDP to hit 14.88 million packets per second on 10G (and 138 Mpps on 100G) with no DPDK or hugepages needed. Where iperf3 tops out, this is just getting started! GitHub repo.

Andree Toonk

🤖 Fantasy 0.40 – Charm's library for building multi-provider, multi-model AI agents with a single API.
📡 GopherTrunk 0.9 – Pure-Go digital-trunking radio scanner engine for RTL-SDR.
GoProxy 1.9 – Create customized HTTP/HTTPS proxy servers with Go.
slacrawl 0.8 – Mirrors Slack workspace data into local SQLite.
pdfcpu 0.14 – Go PDF processing and manipulation library.
Delve 1.27.1 – The popular Go debugger.

🎉 There's a party goin' on right here…

JetBrains is holding an online release party for Go 1.27 on August 25.

Ainsley Clark and Jesús Espino (who created the Go 1.27 tour at the top of this issue) are hosting, and some of the team behind the Go 1.27 release will be taking part! Robert Griesemer, Alan Donovan, Marc Dougherty, Cameron Balahan, and Joe Tsai will be sharing some background about the release and answering viewers' questions live.

I take it this means Go 1.27 will definitely be out by the 25th then… 😅

A plan to bring generic collections to Go 1.28

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#612 — July 31, 2026

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Go's Proposals for Generic Collection Types in Go 1.28 — An umbrella proposal from Go's Collections working group covering several collection data structures intended for the eventual Go 1.28 standard library. Includes a canonical set.Set type, hash-based maps and sets with custom hashers, an ordered map, and a new generic binary heap.

Alan Donovan (Go Team)

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Watching Go's New Garbage Collector Move Through the Heap — Green Tea became the default GC in Go 1.26, and Phil goes looking with perf and an ASCII map of the heap. Go lays objects out in size-segregated spans and never moves them, which can mean freeing 90% of your objects frees almost no memory.

Phil Eaton

IN BRIEF:

All being well, Go 1.27 is expected to land in the next couple of weeks, but the draft Go 1.27 release notes have been fleshed out some more if you want to get ahead of it.
go vet is now set to flag formatting pointers with %d in printf.
Eitam Ring teases KinetiGo, a TinyGo-based toolchain for working with LEGO robotics devices.
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview on GitHub.

Supervised Fire-and-Forget Tasks in Go — How to run 'fire and forget' tasks with bounded concurrency, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown, instead of bare go func() calls.

Redowan Delowar

Adding Go to a Browser Code Runner — A look at adding Go to a browser code runner, why the usual GOOS=js approach didn't work in a V8 isolate, and how compiling the Yaegi interpreter to WASI got it working cleanly.

Ata Kuyumcu

pgx.CollectRows or Why Nice APIs Don't Have To Be Slow — pgx's CollectRows and RowToStructByName helpers were much slower than handwritten loops. The author got caching fixes into pgx 5.6 (released in 2024) and shows how a rethought abstraction closes the gap almost entirely.

zolstein

A Second Database Is a Dependency You Can Skip — TimescaleDB extends Postgres for analytics at scale, no new service to run. Get $1000 credit to start.

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📄 Wrapping Errors with Defer – A small pattern combining defer with a named error result to avoid repetition while still adding context to errors. Roxy Light

📄 Go's Maps: How Swiss Tables Replaced the Old Bucket Design Gabor Koos

🛠 Code & Tools

Gore 0.7: A Full-Featured Go REPL Environment — Has all the niceties you'd expect like line editing, history, multi-line input, expression evaluation, the ability to import packages (and, in v0.7, you can create import aliases too) and gopls-powered code completion.

motemen

Goph 2.0: A Native Go SSH Client Library — Supports connections using passwords, private keys, keys with passphrases, doing file transfers, etc. v2 brings a functional options API, context-aware commands, SOCKS5 proxy, jump hosts, and more.

Mohamed El Bahja

🖼️ webp-go-pure: Pure Go WebP Encoding and Decoding — A pure Go WebP encoder/decoder for when you want to avoid cgo and libwebp.

Kaan Barmore-Genc

soup 2.0: A Beautiful Soup-Inspired Web Scraper — Takes inspiration from Python's popular Beautiful Soup and provides functions for loading and parsing pages and then navigating or reading the elements on them.

Anas Khan

Wish 2.0.2 – Charm's SSH server framework for building terminal-accessible apps. v2.0.2 fixes a bug with apps running under bubbletea.Middleware.
jsonparser 1.6 – Fast JSON parser offering path-based access without predefined structs and minimal allocations.
Milvus 3.0 – Go-powered cloud-native vector database built for vector ANN search. (Repo.)
req 3.60 – Simple, powerful HTTP client library with advanced features.

Go can't kill a stuck goroutine

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#611 — July 24, 2026

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GoMLX: Accelerated Machine Learning Framework for Go — A Python-free, idiomatically Go alternative to TensorFlow or PyTorch. It's come a long way since we linked to it last, with more SIMD support, a new homepage, thorough docs, and support for more Hugging Face models out of the box.

Jan Pfeifer and Contributors

💡 The new docs include a guide to training your own Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with it to classify the MNIST digits.

Build Production-Ready CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions — Erik Reinert takes you from your first workflow to production pipelines: matrix builds, caching, composite actions, reusable workflows, and secure cloud deploys with OIDC.

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Storing Passkeys Like Password Hashes, and a Go API to Match — A proposal for storing WebAuthn credentials as opaque strings, a la password hashes, plus a draft stateless crypto/passkey API that could reach the standard library in Go 1.28. Filippo wants feedback on both now.

Filippo Valsorda

Go's Stuck Goroutine Problem (And Why to Let It Fail) — How goroutines get stuck, why Go can't kill them, and River v0.40's Erlang-inspired 'let it crash' answer for background jobs that ignore cancellation.

Brandur Leach

Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained — An approachable intro to Go's escape analysis and reading -gcflags="-m" output that doubles as a demo of GoLand 2026.2's new tooling for it.

Dominika Stankiewicz (JetBrains)

Building a Metrics Backend? Keep It in Postgres — TimescaleDB extends Postgres to ingest and query metrics at scale. One database, not two. Get $1000 credit to start.

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📄 Building a pkg.go.dev TUI Explorer – A written alternative to ▶️ Alex's video on the same build. Alex Pliutau

📄 Memory Profiling and Optimization in Go: How One Line Allocated 687GB – An accidentally quadratic slice prepend that was caught by the allocation profiler. Solomon Oladiran

📄 Everyone Should Know SIMD – More relevant now as Go continues to add support. Mitchell Hashimoto

🛠 Code & Tools

httpretty 0.2: Pretty-Print HTTP Requests Made from Go — Inspired by curl's --verbose, this could be handy when debugging. We first linked this 7 years ago(!) and it's been rounded out with support for multipart bodies, HTTP trailers, and http.Flusher/http.ResponseController.

Henrique Vicente

oapi-codegen 2.8.0: Now with OpenAPI 3.1 Support — A long-standing way to generate idiomatic Go client and server boilerplate code from OpenAPI 3 specifications, and now OpenAPI 3.1 too. Specs are now validated prior to generation too, Fiber v3 is supported, and Go 1.25+ is now required.

Jamie Tanna and Contributors

go-diskfs: Manipulate Disks and Disk Images from Go — For tasks that you might otherwise use fdisk, mkfs.vfat, or mtools for – partitioning, making filesystems, etc.

Avi Deitcher

🤖 Crush 0.86.0 – Charm's Go-powered CLI agentic development tool adds new LSP tools for better refactoring.
iso8601 1.8 – Fast ISO8601 date parsing library. v1.8 adds support for ordinal dates (e.g. 2026-205 which is today).
Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Go 2.1 – Google's toolkit for building agents.
do 2.1 – Dependency injection toolkit built on generics.
go-ora 3.0 – Pure Go Oracle Database client library.
Ergo 2.19 – Modern Go-powered IRCv3 daemon.
go-pinecone 6.0 – Official Go SDK for Pinecone.

📰 Classifieds

Scala on Go: sealed types, exhaustive matching, Option/Try & new bind/also do-notation — compiled to plain Go. Try it: gala.fyi.

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

Shirei is a cross-platform Go immediate-mode GUI framework that now has early support for generating iOS and Android apps from the same codebase.
Anton Zhiyanov's Solod, an attempt to create a 'better C' based on a subset of Go, now supports networking in v0.2.
🤖 In How I Stopped Running Out of Tokens, a developer whose company uses Claude Enterprise shares some tools you can use (like rtk) to get the most out of your assigned limits.
Metago is an experimental template-based metaprogramming approach to writing templates that write Go.
OctoGo is a Go-like language for the Parallax Propeller 2 microcontroller with the unusual property that goroutines are not scheduled, they take over a CPU core each.
/r/golang discussed why is Cgo so bad? (Or not!)